Chapter 54: Campus Dismembered Body Case (2/2)
Qing Zhu Road was only three kilometres away from Lin Dongxue's residence. In less than fifteen minutes, the two arrived and inquired about what happened from the people at the little newspaper kiosk. This road had a private high school called Pu Si Foreign Language School.
The two entered the school and Lin Dongxue showed the certificate to the guard who stopped the car. The guard cried in excitement, “Oh, you guys came! The school is about to explode in chaos!”
“What happened?”
“When there was a cleaner at night picking up the trash can, they found a b.l.o.o.d.y black bag. When the bag was opened, they found some hair and flesh inside. He thought it was an animal in the beginning, but when he pushed the bag around to see, he saw a man's hand, so he quickly reported the case. Go and have a look. Just downstairs at unit 4 of the teachers' dorms.”
Chen s.h.i.+ went to park the car. The two went to unit 4 of the faculty dormitories and saw a group of people who gathered together. Lin Dongxue carried her ID high up with her hands and pushed through the crowd. When the crowd saw the police coming to the scene, everyone began explaining the situation at the same time. The situation each person described was roughly the same.
Chen s.h.i.+ snapped, “Talk one by one! Who was the first to discover the body?”
A teacher-like person responded, “The cleaner Lao Zhang.”
“Call him over. Is there CCTV monitoring here?”
“Umm, there isn't. There is only monitoring in the teaching area.”
“Are there only teachers who live in this building?”
“Yes.”
“Sorry to trouble everyone, but you all can't leave yet as we have to register your contact details. Ah, yes, who has rubber gloves in their house? Bring over two pairs and a flashlight.”
After a while, the teacher who explained the situation brought over the things that Chen s.h.i.+ had asked for. The two put on the gloves and opened the trash can. A pungent stench came out, flooding their nostrils and the dismembered body in the plastic bag could be seen. Lin Dongxue was disgusted and it felt like her stomach had flipped over.
“If you want to vomit, go to the building and find a bathroom to do so,” Chen s.h.i.+ advised.
“No need!” Lin Dongxue held down her vomit. “With everyone looking at your every move, how are you so calm?”
“Actually, I also want to vomit.” Chen s.h.i.+ smiled bitterly.
There were so many people on the scene that they didn't want to look at the body there and then. Chen s.h.i.+ pulled up a few pieces of the body and declared, “It's a child about twelve or thirteen years old based on their fingers.”
This made Lin Dongxue feel a s.h.i.+ver go down her spine, “Is it a student here?”
“Ninety-nine percent!”
Lin Dongxue resisted the desire to look back at the crowd who was staring at them. The body was found here, so the murderer was most likely a teacher, or even someone who had just talked to them.
At this time, she saw a man coming out of the corridor. The man's eyes widened and suddenly turned back into the building.
“This bag can't be loaded with one person.”
Chen s.h.i.+'s words brought her attention back to reality. Chen s.h.i.+ opened the other bags one by one and found other bags with corpses in them. He used his hand to lift them up and estimated it to be the approximate weight of a teenager.
“Take these back to the station first!”
“Okay!”
“We need to split up. You need to go and take down the contacts of the people present.”
Lin Dongxue registered each person on the scene and questioned the cleaner who found the body. The cleaner said they found the body at around 8 pm.
Chen s.h.i.+ asked the guard to find him a large roll of plastic bags. When the guard gave this to him, Chen s.h.i.+ wrapped the body bags with the new plastic bags, along with all the other bags, whether or not they had blood on them. He also asked the cleaner to label each bag with a serial number, then put it into a big plastic bag altogether and put it in the trunk of the car.
Soon, other police officers in the area arrived. They mainly came to protect the scene, so Lin Dongxue handed over the work and got back in the car.
Chen s.h.i.+ lit up a cigarette and contemplated, “I'll have to wash this car after we sort this out.”
Lin Dongxue was very puzzled. “Why did you bring all the rubbish back and why did you bother labelling them?”
Chen s.h.i.+ asked, “How did you even pa.s.s your criminal investigation cla.s.ses? Were there any blood stains on the bags around the body bag? You can directly judge when the body bags were put in, and then guess the time period of the corpse abandonment. I have labelled them with serial numbers for convenience if we need to rea.s.semble the crime scene.”
Lin Dongxue could not argue. “Maybe when I was in cla.s.s, my soul went out. Let's swap souls so I can understand these things.”
“Haha, go buy two bottles of cola. I want to vomit.”
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